| 单词 | revolve about |
| 例句 | The knights of the guard were mounting, hopping beside their chargers with one foot in the stirrup, while each horse revolved about the axis of its rider. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The incident revolved about Sam Gardiner, the pudgy, round-faced proprietor of the general store in Newton. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Distant galaxies revolving about one another follow the same laws of gravitational physics as govern the motion of an apple falling to Earth, or Voyager on its way to the stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew that my life was revolving about a world that I had to encounter and fight when I grew up. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z What one does takes away from initial visits to the concerto will likely revolve about Josefowicz. Violinist Leila Josefowicz is a powerful storyteller in John Adams' 'Scheherazade.2' 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z So Mr. Goldberg has written a book that revolves about Stalin’s final blow against the country’s remaining Jews. Review: ‘The Yid,’ Paul Goldberg’s First Novel, Taunts Stalin 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z Use Kepler’s third law to calculate the difference between how long a particle at the inner edge and a particle at the outer edge of the three-ring system would take to revolve about the planet. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z If this same region is revolved about the x-axis, is the volume finite or infinite? Calculus, Vol 2 2016-03-30T00:00:00Z The shell model treats the nucleus in a sense as a miniature solar system, with neutrons and protons in the roles of planets, revolving about a central point, but essentially independent. Ben Roy Mottelson, Nobel laureate in physics, dies at 95 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z Naturally, then, most of the storylines on Sunday revolved about how many points players were grabbing or losing with every birdie and bogey down the stretch at Sedgefield Country Club. How much prize money each golfer earned at the 2018 Wyndham Championship - Golf Digest 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z While coaches supported the notion of improving player safety, their concerns revolved about the practicality of such a rule. NFL owners amend 'tuck rule' – and ignore coaches to pass 'helmet rule' 2013-03-20T18:47:00Z Many are born in double or triple systems with two, three, or more stars revolving about each other. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z Afterward, all the talk revolved about the future of the Big East and big-time college basketball in general. Big East news eclipses West Carolina loss to Hoyas 2012-12-15T22:23:11Z Now we may consider that the cutter simply revolves about a circle whose diameter is the largest that can be described on the end of the square bar that drives it. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z And these planetary rings are, in the Laplacian hypothesis, the embryo moons or planetary satellites, all revolving round their several planets in the same direction that the planets revolve about the sun. Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies 2012-03-17T02:01:02.630Z Fifty years after the death of Copernicus, the celebrated astronomer, Kepler, proposed extensions and improvements of the Copernican doctrine, which made the theory that the planets revolve about the sun more probable than ever before. Joseph Smith as Scientist A Contribution to Mormon Philosophy 2012-03-12T03:00:27.817Z Examining the planets, Galileo found four moons revolving about Jupiter in times ranging from just under 2 days to about 17 days. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z Sallie had been far too happily occupied since she had come to Loquhariot to have been conscious of the wheels within wheels revolving about her there. The White Blackbird 2012-03-10T03:00:15.513Z Their minds constantly revolve about one source of discouragement. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z A double plot, usually with an elaborate surprise in the fifth act, revolves about lust and revenge with some attention to untarnished honor and unconquered chastity. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z This obstinate and inveterate disagreement revolved about the single, simple, fateful question of the right and wrong of holding men in bonds. Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians 2012-01-17T03:00:21.120Z Both the planet and the star actually revolve about their common center of mass. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z Both are out of sympathy with the modern movement in Irish literature, with the "Celtic revival," with all that revolves about the person of Mr. Yeats. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z He is the pivot of my book, all the other characters revolving about him. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z Its transmission to the mass will cause the latter to revolve about some axis of symmetry within itself. The Energy System of Matter A Deduction from Terrestrial Energy Phenomena 2011-12-21T03:00:36.570Z "Jack Sheppard," with its requisition of antiquarian exactness so plausibly met, may well have suggested to Cruikshank a more epic theme than the exploits of a master-thief, revolving about a nobler gaol than Newgate. George Cruikshank 2011-12-18T03:00:20.137Z The Moon rotates on its axis in exactly the same time that it takes to revolve about Earth. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z When moved it does not roll away as would a hen's egg but revolves about its own tip. Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z The sun and moon were included among the planets, which revolved about the earth in the order Moon, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn. Astronomical Lore in Chaucer 2011-10-13T02:00:42.860Z If the figure be revolved about the line of centers, the circles generate spheres and the tangents generate conical surfaces. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z But the gods which circularly revolve about the heavens, and which are living statues, fashioned by the gods themselves as resemblances of their unapparent essence,—these remain for ever. Arguments Of Celsus, Porphyry, And The Emperor Julian, Against The Christians Also Extracts from Diodorus Siculus, Josephus, and Tacitus, Relating to the Jews, Together with an Appendix 2011-10-12T02:00:42.117Z The asteroids all revolve about the Sun in the same direction as the planets, and most of their orbits lie near the plane in which Earth and other planets circle. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z The interest which attaches to Don Silva's character revolves about its exquisite human weakness, its manly scepticism, its antipathy to the trenchant, the absolute, and arbitrary. Views and Reviews 2011-09-16T02:00:21.197Z We know that the earth revolves about the sun once yearly in an orbit that is not entirely round but somewhat eliptical. Astronomical Lore in Chaucer 2011-10-13T02:00:42.860Z She tried the scissors; they slipped and revolved about the leaden slug without seizing it. Caybigan 2011-08-31T02:01:21.780Z Then the reporter, who for a time turns detective, gets a clue revolving about a startling, ancient method of combat. Baseball Joe of the Silver Stars or The Rivals of Riverside 2011-08-14T02:00:21.583Z Copernicus could not prove that Earth revolves about the Sun. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z He builds a big store, and all the affairs of the village revolve about him. Knut Hamsun 2011-07-18T02:00:21.927Z Established at Wilderness Lodge, the Wayfarers, as they call themselves, find they are the center of a mystery which revolves about a missing will. Ruth Fielding In the Red Cross Doing Her Best For Uncle Sam 2011-06-14T02:00:23.757Z No planet, nor anything which can fairly be regarded as indicating the existence of a planet, revolving about a star, has anywhere been discerned. The Plurality of Worlds 2011-06-01T02:00:23.787Z What a universe of loves in human hearts revolves about those unseen, unproven substances! Told In The Hills 2011-05-30T02:00:15.530Z Nevertheless, the periodic shifting back and forth of the brighter star’s lines gave evidence that it was revolving about an unseen companion. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z The title does not refer to its tonality, but to the fact that I had made all the music revolve about an axis of sound which happened to be the LA. An Autobiography 2011-05-21T02:00:10.850Z He revolved about it, mentally and on his feet, till he became angry with himself for the loss of time, ceased to speculate, and went to work in desperation. Peccavi 2011-05-17T02:00:22.620Z The planets which revolve about our Sun are not, any of them, nor all of them together, large enough to produce a perceptible obscuration of his light, to a spectator outside the system. The Plurality of Worlds 2011-06-01T02:00:23.787Z In the evening, the earthly strength of the Angel declined, and a crushing globe seemed to revolve about his head. The Campaner Thal and Other Writings 2011-04-26T02:00:29.827Z A set of screw-propellers, driven by steam-engines, and situated beneath the vessel, where they were safe against injury by shot, were so arranged as to permit the vessel to be rapidly revolved about its centre. A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine 2011-04-21T02:00:53.240Z That is why I was so much attracted by the idea of writing music in which everything should revolve about the melodic principle. An Autobiography 2011-05-21T02:00:10.850Z He made a catalogue of double stars, and found by laborious calculations that such stars have a common centre of gravity; that one sun revolves about another. Famous Men of Science 2011-03-08T03:00:49.717Z Even if we knew that the stars were the centres of revolving systems, we should have an immense difficulty in believing that an Earth, with such a population as ours, revolves about any of them. The Plurality of Worlds 2011-06-01T02:00:23.787Z All his thoughts revolved about this one point, the disgrace which had been heaped upon him, and which burned into his soul like red-hot iron. Saint Michael A Romance 2011-01-31T03:00:12.470Z It consisted of a fixed horseshoe armature wound over with insulated copper wire in front of which revolved about a vertical axis a horseshoe magnet. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" 2011-01-29T03:00:23.777Z Does this prove that the earth revolves about the sun? A Text-Book of Astronomy 2011-01-05T03:00:57.347Z Trent's thoughts were revolving about what he had just heard—revolving and reaching no end. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z The old astronomers believed that the Earth was the centre of the Universe, and that the planets revolved about it. A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z The dance is a religious rite, and it is supposed to represent the planets revolving about the sun. The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise With the forging supported in this way, the crank-pin and inner sides of the webs are turned and faced, the work revolving about the axis of the pin. Turning and Boring A specialized treatise for machinists, students in the industrial and engineering schools, and apprentices, on turning and boring methods, etc. Their conversation instead when they met for luncheon, as they did frequently, revolved about threats which a few years back they hadn't dreamed would ever face them. The Guarded Heights All forces, all sympathies, revolve about money as the heavenly bodies revolve about the sun. The Progressionists, and Angela. It was found that the elongated projectile would tumble or revolve about its transverse axis during its flight, also wobble or describe a cork screw or spiral trajectory—capital defects requiring immediate attention. The Development of Armor-piercing Shells with Suggestions for their Improvement Once established at Wilderness Lodge, the Wayfarers, as they have decided to call themselves, find they are the center of a mystery which revolves about a missing will. Dorothy Dale at Glenwood School He saw himself as the centre of the whole solar system and the rest of his family revolving about him as minor satellites. Five Young Men Messages of Yesterday for the Young Men of To-day Now let us consider the surfaces of revolution formed by this system of catenaries revolving about the directrix of the two catenaries of equal tension. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" Pomona was not in good humor; indeed, Pomona's gloomy moods were frequent, and the household, to some extent, revolved about them. The Shadow He liked to be the central figure, with all revolving about him, and enjoy the consciousness of having his keys in his pocket, and his fire-proof safe at home. Edelweiss A Story He had been billed to play the leading rôle in "My Awful Dad" and everything in the outfit was supposed to revolve about him. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 4 June 1906 The ring being understood as yet unbroken, we see that its exterior, while the whole revolves about the parent body, moves more rapidly than its interior. Eureka: A Prose Poem But in the hours I spent alone I found my thoughts revolving about many things which I could not generally share. The Portal of Dreams According to Lo-as-ro, his world was a planet revolving about one of the stars in the Big Dipper. Call Him Savage In Milton, therefore, we find the earth the centre of the visible universe, while the sun, the planets, and the fixed stars revolve about it in their several spheres. Minor Poems by Milton Thus Abner tormented himself, his thoughts ever revolving about the puzzling question. Crestlands A Centennial Story of Cane Ridge Neither is the Sun absolutely the centre of the system; for this Sun itself, with all the planets, revolves about a perpetually shifting point of space, which is the system’s general centre of gravity. Eureka: A Prose Poem Accordingly the trio set forth, Dorothy declining 137 to follow the path but circling around the others, like an erratic planet, revolving about twin suns. Peggy Raymond's Vacation or Friendly Terrace Transplanted In his novel, "The Death of the Gods," Merezhkovsky has painted the first of these epochs, the different phases of which revolve about the principal hero, the emperor Julian the Apostate. Contemporary Russian Novelists These heavenly souls, whose whole machinations revolved about earthly objects and the successes of this groveling planet! Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 When Miss Josephine appeared in a fresh costume, his small gray eyes revolved about her with an appearance of sluggish satisfaction which for him was almost animation. Stories by American Authors, Volume 3 I have stated that Neptune, the planet farthest from the Sun, revolves about him at a distance of 28 hundred millions of miles. Eureka: A Prose Poem Every summer he comes here, and the place revolves about him. Seven Keys to Baldpate It is the center of the atom and the other two electrons play around about it just as the earth and Mars and the other planets play or revolve about the sun as a center. Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son Recreation in the country, above all, should revolve about something to eat. The Evolution of the Country Community A Study in Religious Sociology His thoughts were revolving about the incidents of the past few days, and, more especially, about Padre Diego and his significant words. Carmen Ariza Ceaselessly his thoughts revolved about the hopelessness of his situation. Two Thousand Miles Below Strange names of strange worlds, revolving about a strange star. The Long Voyage Mack, all but bewildered by the way plays had revolved about him, was pushed into the huddle as time-keepers consulted their watches. Interference and Other Football Stories The earth also revolves about the sun, having a speed of about 19 miles in a second, or 68,000 miles an hour. The Machinery of the Universe Mechanical Conceptions of Physical Phenomena These were many, but they revolved about a common center––religion. Carmen Ariza The entire flyer shell could be revolved about the axis so that oblique motion with our bow and stern motors was readily possible. Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930 But the empire had extended too far west to revolve about that distant pivot. A Short History of Spain Every atom, you know, is a sort of solar system, with electrons revolving about a proton. The Pygmy Planet By a process like this, Herschel reached his grand discovery of true binary systems, where one sun revolves about another. Sir William Herschel: His Life and Works Monsignor, there were once several hundred millions who believed that the earth was flat, and that the sun revolved about it. Carmen Ariza We have seen how Copernicus placed the earth in its true position in the solar system, making it merely one of a number of other worlds revolving about a central luminary. Pioneers of Science Their sunshade kept revolving about that way, and sometimes their heads revolved a little bit, too. Letters on an Elk Hunt Before luncheon, this find of hers was the centre of the party; events were revolving about him. The Readjustment When it is written it may or may not revolve about individuals. McGill and its Story, 1821-1921 Their pilgrimage is not over yet; nor will it be while the earth revolves about the sun. Fairy Book That there are inhabitants in the moon is well known to spirits and angels, and in like manner that there are inhabitants in the moons or satellites which revolve about Jupiter and Saturn. Moon Lore They stood crouched like beasts, or revolved about each other, the gleaming blades poised in the air, their left hands seeking holding-place. The Iron Pirate A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea Most of us convey the idea that to our own view we are centers of our circles, and that the universe revolves about us. A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time How completely the life of a bird revolves about its nest, its home! Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs He saw, too, that the moons of Jupiter were revolving about their planet in the same way that the planets revolve about the sun. An Introduction to the History of Western Europe When two stars forming a double-star are found to revolve about each other. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Algiers is a formless cluster of lower stars, and presently those stars begin to revolve about us as though the wind really had got the sky loose. Old Junk And so the satellites of Saturn are revolved about this planet with motions nearly circular and equable, scarcely disturbed by any eccentricity hitherto observed. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science He drove to his club with one thought in his mind, and that thought revolved about the identity and the whereabouts of the person referred to in the little man's record as "X." The Man Who Knew Physically the planet still revolved about the sun; politically, Earth revolved around Government City. Anything You Can Do ... Secondary planets or moons, which revolve about some of the primary planets. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. The last of these was a gas giant with innumerable moonlets revolving about it. The Aliens That Venus and Mercury are revolved about the sun is demonstrable from their moon-like appearances. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science The inner planet revolved about it with one side glowing low red heat and the other side piled high with frozen atmosphere. Talents, Incorporated The Asteroid Belt, that magnificently useful collection of stone and metal lumps revolving about the sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, is somewhat like the old-fashioned merry-go-round. Anything You Can Do ... The Pythagorean system of the universe, revived by Copernicus in the sixteenth century, and now confirmed; in which the sun occupies the central space, and the planets with their attendant satellites revolve about him. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. You see, the world is revolving about the sun steadily, and it is always high noon somewhere on the globe. Tales of Fantasy and Fact But if the earth is supposed to move, the earth and moon together will be revolved about their common centre of gravity. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science Three-fourths of Lyly’s comedies lightly revolve about topics of classical or fairy mythology—in the very manner which Shakespeare first brought to a triumphant issue in his ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream.’ A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles As the wick exhausted the oil, the cylinder slowly revolved about the pivots so as to keep the oil always touching the wick. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I Those which revolve about the sun as a centre, outside the earth's orbit; the opposite of inferior. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. The earth revolves about the sun once every year, and rotates on its axis once in twenty-four hours, which makes what we call a day. The Land of the Long Night Venus in 23 hr., and in like manner is the moon revolved about its axis in 27 days 7 hr. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science This reflection is supposed to be due to immense numbers of meteorites, or possibly, systems of meteorites, like the rings of Saturn, revolving about the sun. The Youth's Companion Volume LII, Number 11, Thursday, March 13, 1879 He did not look as if he were revolving with lightning speed about the sun, and the moons revolving about him were not even visible. Peak and Prairie From a Colorado Sketch-book Those beautiful opaque bodies which revolve about the sun as a centre, in nearly circular orbits. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. It must not be imagined, however, that all comets revolve about the sun even in the most lengthened ellipses. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 450 Volume 18, New Series, August 14, 1852 The hopes of men did not revolve about any Utopia to be expected here. Christianity and Progress I like children when they are polite and a little reticent, when they are not too much in evidence, and when the whole household is not made to revolve about them. We Three Since these stars revolved about the mass of the entire galaxy, it was possible to calculate the mass of the entire universe by averaging the values from several stars. Islands of Space The primary planets revolve about the sun in ellipses, having that luminary in one of the foci. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. It is quite possible that they live on a planet revolving about the sun which is, nevertheless, a planet of another star. The Black Star Passes However, as time passed, the geocentric doctrine, the doctrine that the earth is the center of the universe and that the sun and planets revolve about it, was the theory that held the highest respect. The Necessity of Atheism Had Earth been situated at this planet's center, the Moon could have revolved about it, and would not have been beyond the planet's surface! Invaders from the Infinite Quin sprang out of bed, and then sat down limply, waiting for the furniture to stop revolving about him. Quin The satellites, or moons, revolving about some of the primary planets—the moon being our satellite. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. If it revolves about a vertical axis its centre of gravity must always lie in that axis; if it rolls the centre of gravity must always lie over the abutment. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Copernicus, in 1543, was first to bring clearly before the world the then astounding theory that the earth and planets revolve about the sun. The Necessity of Atheism Her ideas revolved about the parasitic occupations because they seemed to promise large, immediate returns. One Woman's Life Her imagination revolved about all sorts of preposterous means for getting rid of the poor fellow, whom she honestly liked, and to whom she was grateful for his enthusiastic labors. The Way of Ambition Conspiracy was a striking feature of the period that followed the fall of Robespierre; in fact, for the ten years that follow it may be said that all internal politics revolve about conspiracies. The French Revolution A Short History In the rondos, then, all the movements of musical development revolve about one significant sentence or theme, the style of which therefore determines the prevailing character of the whole composition. Lessons in Music Form A Manual of Analysis of All the Structural Factors and Designs Employed in Musical Composition The earth was believed to be fixed and the sun revolving about it, but although this appears to be so, the reverse is now known to be true. The Promulgation of Universal Peace To the eye the earth appears fixed while the sun and stars revolve about it. Foundations of World Unity The story would revolve about her and another character—a male one—upon whom she had not decided—until the appearance of Ferguson. The Two-Gun Man Let the earth, instead of offering a fixed centre for the revolving motions of other heavenly bodies, be supposed itself to revolve about some one of these, as the sun. The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg The plot revolves about the rebellion of an Earl of Kendal. The Growth of English Drama Man has accurately determined that the sun is stationary while the earth revolves about it. The Promulgation of Universal Peace Instead of regarding the universe as revolving about itself it sees that self as but part of the great machinery of life, planned and operating for the good of all. Levels of Living Essays on Everyday Ideals There are glimpses of it in The Pioneers, while in The Deerslayer the whole action revolves about this lake, which throughout the story is called the "Glimmerglass." The Story of Cooperstown It was as if he were the result of over-indulgent parents who'd committed the mistake of letting the child know that their whole universe revolved about him. The Fourth R For a long time it was believed that these, as well as the remoter fixed stars, revolved about the earth. Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography To the eye the earth appears fixed, while the sun and stars revolve about it. The Promulgation of Universal Peace The two spheres supported by the frame are set in simultaneous vibration, and the frame, moreover, is free to revolve about its axis. Scientific American Supplement, No. 315, January 14, 1882 All mankind believed for a long time that the sun revolved about the earth. The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism Through interminable hours the mind of Alixe revolved about a phrase she had picked up from Elvard Rentgen: "Music is a trap for weak souls; for the strong as the spinning of cobwebs...." Visionaries These spheres were conceived to be one above the other; the planets were on the lower of them, and the fixed stars on the higher, the several crystal roofs revolving about the earth. Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography His splendid statecraft now revolves about questions of rye bread, Russian geese, and American pork; he struggles amidst a mass of difficulties more comic than sublime. The Schemes of the Kaiser But his mind would not cease to revolve about the undertaking, for he could not at once relinquish his long-cherished dream. The Iron Furrow Two lines u and u' revolve about two points U and U' respectively in the same plane. An Elementary Course in Synthetic Projective Geometry The tumultuous forces in Russia, never at rest, were preparing to revolve about a new center. A Short History of Russia Thenceforth the two bodies were parted, except for the gravitative attraction which impelled them to revolve about their common centre of gravity, and except for the light and heat they might exchange with one another. Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography The wary animal eluded the blow and for a moment revolved about another sphinx, pursued by his master, and then fled like a phantom out of the court by the path he came. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt There is no reason to think that all the primary planets, which revolve about the sun, have been discovered. The Uses of Astronomy An Oration Delivered at Albany on the 28th of July, 1856 The line u revolves about a point P. Show that the line u' is tangent to a parabola. An Elementary Course in Synthetic Projective Geometry Oscillations may also be met in the same manner as in sugar machines, by allowing the revolving parts to revolve about an axis through their common center of gravity. Scientific American Supplement, No. 613, October 1, 1887 They had supposed that the facts revolved about them. An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant They probably had been revolving about each other as worlds and satellites before entering our atmosphere. Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work Sabina had told Abel that he must keep away from the works, but he ignored her direction and often revolved about them at moments of liberty. The Spinners As q revolves about P, its pole Q moves along a line at right angles to the axis on which P lies, describing a point-row p projective to the pencil of rays q. An Elementary Course in Synthetic Projective Geometry As soon as the card is quickly revolved about a central axis, the two pictures fuse into one. The Photoplay A Psychological Study The room wavered and blurred in his weary vision—squat, rush-bottomed Dutch chairs seemed to revolve about a table with apparently a hundred legs, a bearskin floated across the floor.... The Three Black Pennys A Novel How many bodies there may be revolving about the sun we have no means to determine or arithmetic to express. Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work Talbot, who was the more easily observed by reason of his shining pate and the pink stripes of his pajamas, appeared to be revolving about the person of his neighbor. A Reversible Santa Claus The third time the strange wheels revolved about the camping place, although by this time the distance that had to be covered was greatly increased. The Go Ahead Boys and Simon's Mine If there were two suns revolving about the earth, one to shine upon us by night and one by day, much evil would be averted. Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall The disc is revolved about the centre of the white areas, and one gets the impression that the coloured parts are portions of separate discs separated by white discs. Things To Make They would revolve about each other till a kind of grazing contact of grinding worlds would slowly kindle the ultimate heat. Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work Mighty issues revolve about the scene, whether this is laid on Earth or amongst the Gods, issues far transcending the fate of Orestes or even of Prometheus. The Seven Plays in English Verse The result was, as it always is in such cases, she began to revolve about three or four main lines of thought, and to make a very fair progress in the knowledge of herself. The Necromancers And always, Husband and wife should move like binary stars: revolving about a common centre; mutually attractive; and, unless closely viewed, presenting a single impression. Hints for Lovers His mind revolved about this unknown traveler, floating forward in surmises, till, by chance, he happened to set his right foot in one of the prints left in the snow. The Dweller on the Threshold We have climbed up from revolving earth and moon to revolving planets and sun, in order to understand how two or ten suns can revolve about a common centre. Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work In most of the eastern counties of the State, the interest and profit of the farm revolve about the cow. In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs Yet, as her son remembered her in after life, she was the centre of everything, never idle, never hurried; every one and everything revolved about her and received her light and warmth. Gordon Keith Neptune has one satellite, at a distance of 202,000 miles, which, like those of Uranus, revolves about its primary in an orbit at a considerable angle to his own in five days twenty-one hours. A Trip to Venus When he entered a drawing-room general conversation ceased, and the company revolved about him so long as he remained. The Conqueror Let us now leap to the grander idea that all the innumerable stars of a winter night not only loan, but must revolve about some centre of gravity. Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work Thus it is made to revolve about that luminary, and to preserve its path. Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) Dent says there are cold bodies which he calls planets without atmosphere: he has found one to revolve about him. The Mettle of the Pasture He therefore assumed that the other planets revolved about the sun, while the sun, moon, and stars revolved about the earth as a centre. Kepler The great puzzle revolved about the strange actions of the girl; her part in the affair presenting an unsolvable riddle. The Case and the Girl The meaning of these double stars is that two or more suns revolve about their centre of gravity, as the moon and earth about their centre. Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work Marcus looked out of the window at the flying landscape, and the distant patches of wood which seemed to be slowly revolving about each other, and was profoundly wretched. Round the Block But the perpendicular to the motion of the crank pin is the line of the crank itself, and consequently is revolving about O with an angular velocity represented by AOa. Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887 Each planet revolves about its own axis in a given time; and each moves round the sun, in an orbit nearly circular, and in a time proportioned to its distance. The Grammar of English Grammars The book, however, was but a mark for his thoughts, which continually revolved about the strange surroundings in which he found himself. The Case and the Girl If they have planets, as doubtless they have, the movement is no more complicated than the planets we call satellites of Saturn revolving about their central body, and also about the sun. Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work This force presents its claims to attention in all bodies which revolve about fixed centers, and sometimes these claims are presented with a good deal of urgency. Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886 They swear by him now almost as much as they do by his father which is saying a good deal for Dunbury has revolved about Stuart Lambert for years. Wild Wings A Romance of Youth They show that the chances favor small eccentricities for satellites revolving about their planets in the west to east, or direct sense, and large eccentricities for satellites moving in retrograde directions. Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 As everything turned upon her, and revolved about her, they went out under the plane-tree, and she carried the wine down for the special benefit of Mr. Lorry. A Tale of Two Cities Sirius has long been known to have a proper motion, such as it would have if another sun were revolving about it. Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work We have been supposing a body to be firmly held to the center, so as to be compelled to revolve about it in a fixed path. Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886 It is beginning to revolve about Stuart Lambert and Son now. Wild Wings A Romance of Youth Nevertheless the wing can easily revolve about its base like unto a fan. A History of Aeronautics I am of another world," I answered, "the great planet Earth, which revolves about our common sun and next within the orbit of your Barsoom, which we know as Mars. A Princess of Mars Perhaps it has some dark body revolving about it at frightful speed, in a period of less than three days. Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work We saw this in astronomy, when Bellarmin and his followers insisted that the scientific doctrine of the earth revolving about the sun is contrary to the theological doctrine of the incarnation. History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom Now she was the humblest of the satellites revolving about this sun of the household. Emma McChesney and Co. Did she give to God "that which belongeth unto God," as long as all her hopes, her thoughts, and her whole being revolved about this one earthly thing, her son, the child of her sorrow? Tales from Two Hemispheres The further moon revolves about Mars in something over thirty and one-quarter hours, and with her sister satellite makes a nocturnal Martian scene one of splendid and weird grandeur. A Princess of Mars Lily, for all her dissatisfied dreaming, had never really conceived the possibility of revolving about a different centre: it was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region. House of Mirth They held up before the world the dreadful consequences which must result to Christian theology were the heavenly bodies proved to revolve about the sun and not about the earth. History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom At once they were aware of a vast and unwonted bustle that revolved about the place. The Octopus : A story of California This gracious speech went unanswered; Roderick had already wandered across to the other side of the studio and was revolving about Miss Light. Roderick Hudson And so, too, it came about that much of state politics revolved about the choice of members for the upper house, for senators were elected by the state legislatures until long after 1890. The United States Since the Civil War Lying in nearly the same line of vision, with planes of movement at right angles with it, they would necessarily present the appearance of one star revolving about the other--an apparent motion only. Life: Its True Genesis To prove that the sun revolves about the earth, he cites the passage in the Psalms which speaks of the sun "which cometh forth as a bridegroom out of his chamber." History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom From where I sat I could perceive the circle of gaudily painted beasts that revolved about this musical atrocity. Ruggles of Red Gap The circle of the Different revolves about the Zodiac, but the circle of the Same about the Equinoctial. The Non-Christian Cross An Enquiry into the Origin and History of the Symbol Eventually Adopted as That of Our Religion She was of course the idol of the household, and everything revolved about her. Robert Browning: How to Know Him They all revolved about her, and trusted her for everything. What Katy Did They held up before the world the dreadful consequences which must result to Christian theology were the doctrine to prevail that the heavenly bodies revolve about the sun, and not about the earth. Scientific American, Volume 22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. The sand moulds are arranged in the frame, a b which revolves about the axle, c. Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881 Astronomers were not satisfied with the telescope; true, they beheld the phenomena of the solar system; planets rotating on axes, and satellites revolving about them. Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881 All the heavenly bodies revolved about man's abode as their center. The Mind in the Making The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform You see you make the whole world revolve about social distinctions. The Great God Success You saw this in astronomy, when Bellarmine and others insisted that the doctrine of the earth's revolving about the sun is contrary to the doctrine of the Incarnation. Scientific American, Volume 22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. The slight action of the story revolves about two unlovely heroines, the unprincipled Becky Sharp and the spineless Amelia. Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived The bright French afternoon waned without bringing them back, yet Mr. Dosson still revolved about the court till he might have been taken for a valet de place hoping to pick up custom. The Reverberator Her eye fastened on a circular portion of the wall-paper pattern, and she felt that the whole room was revolving about her. Hilda Lessways The story of "Bleak House" revolves about Lincoln's Inn. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 1 Great Britain and Ireland, part 1 He likewise says in the same dialogue, "that neither can evil be abolished, nor yet do they subsist with the gods, but that they necessarily revolve about this terrene abode, and a mortal nature." Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato The moon revolves about the earth, and is therefore the earth's ____. The Century Vocabulary Builder Mostly the conversation revolves about our own sphere, for just as in the navy the sea is the favourite topic, and in the army the trenches, so with us it is aviation. Flying for France With the American escadrille at Verdun Already he revolved about her, he was aware, like some eager delighted little moon, drawn away from the orbit where it had encircled so contentedly by the more potent planet. Queen Lucia Aristarchus of Samos, who lived in the third century B.C., held that the earth revolves about the sun as a fixed centre, and rotates on its own axis. General History for Colleges and High Schools "They will forget," he said one evening, as we sat watching the Double Cross slowly revolve about its axis. The Cruise of the Kawa The universe is considered to be a sphere, whose centre is the earth and whose circumference revolved about two fixed points. Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus It was Kepler who made clear that the planets revolve about the sun in elliptical rather than in strictly circular paths. A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. All opinions, all theories, all conjectures, however, revolved about a single fear;—that she was the victim of a German plot. West Wind Drift He taught, only to his most select pupils however, that the earth is a sphere; and that, like the other planets, it revolves about a central globe of fire. General History for Colleges and High Schools Not even the figure of Lear holding the dead body of Cordelia surpasses in tragic intensity this old pair whose whole life has for so long revolved about their son. Essays on Russian Novelists Billions upon billions of stars found in the heavens may each have their own planets revolving about them. The Flying Saucers are Real To make our human ethics revolve about the question of 'merit' is a piteous unreality—God alone can know our merits, if we have any. Pragmatism Watson realised that his whole future might revolve about the axis of his next words. The Blind Spot They were ignorant of the spherical form of the earth, and so could not have attached any idea whatever to a statement that it revolved about its axis. Story of Creation as Told By Theology and By Science All the planets, are they not earths, which revolve about the sun? Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion When question and answer had revolved about this point for another quarter of an hour, Hilliard brought the dialogue to an end. Eve's Ransom These problems were always agitating the comrades; their lives revolved about them. Mother The duke's blue uniform, his wife's black-gowned figure, and the white, radiant blur that was Miss Falconer revolved about me in spinning, starry circles. The Firefly of France They consist chiefly of enormous volumes of hydrogen, ejected from the surface of the sun with a velocity almost inconceivable, and at the same time revolving about their axis after the fashion of a cyclone. Story of Creation as Told By Theology and By Science This preliminary skirmish over, the opening discussion revolved about a point of law as to whether the Virginia District Court had authority to act in this case. Jailed for Freedom The sun is the central stillness, so far as our solar system is concerned, and the earth revolves about the sun once a year, besides 121:27 turning daily on its own axis. Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures But it happened that during his absence he had written a series of fiction stories, all revolving about the figure of a middle-aged woman medium. The Native Son All this was very delightful for Philip, and for a long time, on one pretext or another, he kept the conversation revolving about this point. That Fortune Psychology, theory of knowledge and metaphysics revolve about belief, and on the view we take of belief our philosophical outlook largely depends. The Analysis of Mind The creature who passes through this period of existence without watching it revolve about such a center has missed an extraordinary and singularly developing experience. T. Tembarom I foresee that our conversation will revolve about matters pertaining to the height of romance. Samuel Brohl and Company They talked about Washington as people talk only in the place itself, revolving about the subject in widening and narrowing circles, perching successively on its many branches, considering it from every point of view. Pandora Holding one another by the hand, and chanting a low dirge, the Mystic Twelve revolved about me. The Story of a Bad Boy If we begin with a liquid satellite revolving about a liquid planet and proceed backwards in time, we must make the two masses expand so that their density will be diminished. Darwin and Modern Science SOCRATES: As, for example, in the case of the sun, I think that you would be contented with the statement that the sun is the brightest of the heavenly bodies which revolve about the earth. Theaetetus Now it became clear that some of them, at any rate, are true "binary systems," linked together presumably by gravitation and revolving about one another. A History of Science — Volume 3 According to that theory, as we have seen, the earth was supposed to lie immovable at the centre of the universe; the various heavenly bodies, including the sun, revolving about it in eccentric circles. A History of Science — Volume 2 Sun and earth alike revolve about this great fire, each in its own orbit. A History of Science — Volume 1 The orbits of some are circular, and of others elliptical, as those of comets, and some revolve about each other, or, as we have seen, about a common point while they perform their celestial journey. A journey in other worlds A romance of the future "Impossible!" said Lieutenant Procope; "the earth is millions and millions of leagues away, and it is not probable that the moon has ceased to revolve about her." Off on a Comet! a Journey through Planetary Space Obviously the star sending such light is alternately approaching and receding, and the inference that it is revolving about a companion is unavoidable. A History of Science — Volume 3 Exactly the same thing happens and in exactly the same way if, instead of disturbing so large a part of the universe, you let the earth revolve about itself. A History of Science — Volume 2 It seemed to him inherently improbable that an enormously large body like the sun should revolve about a small one such as the earth. A History of Science — Volume 1 "There will be no danger from, meteors or sub-satellites here," said Bearwarden, "for anything revolving about the moon at this distance would be caught by the earth." A journey in other worlds A romance of the future Her mental state was peculiar, and her thoughts revolved about the journey from Oxford Street homeward. Dope They were twin whirlwinds of hatred, revolving about each other monstrously. Martin Eden To make such a statement to-day seems not unlike the sober announcement that the earth is round or that the sun does not revolve about it. A History of Science — Volume 2 But, on the other hand, that a small body like the earth should revolve about the gigantic sun seemed inherently probable. A History of Science — Volume 1 The outer one, Deimos, is but six miles in diameter, and revolves about its primary in thirty hours and eighteen minutes, at a distance of fourteen thousand six hundred miles. A journey in other worlds A romance of the future The germs of the thought were as old as the Pythagorean doctrine that the earth revolves about a centre that we cannot see. A History of Science — Volume 1 He pulled a lever and made his mind revolve about him, a monstrous wheel of fortune, a merry-go-round of memory, a revolving sphere of wisdom. Martin Eden As Tycho conceived it, the sun revolves about the earth, carrying with it the planets-Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, which planets have the sun and not the earth as the centre of their orbits. A History of Science — Volume 2 It assumes that the earth is the fixed centre of the solar system, and that the stars and planets revolve about it in twenty-four hours, the earth being, of course, spherical. A History of Science — Volume 1 There are known to be several unclaimed masses," added Ayrault, "with diameters of a few hundred yards, revolving about the earth inside the orbit of the moon. A journey in other worlds A romance of the future Nothing seemed to be revolving about anything else; all were moving, apparently swinging back and forth, but no collisions took place. 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